# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jerome-adams
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:33:26.501Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jerome-adams"
name: "Jerome Adams"
slug: "jerome-adams"
description: "Jerome Michael Adams is an American anesthesiologist and a former vice admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps who served as the 20th surgeon general of the United States from September 5, 2017, until January 20, 2021. Before becoming Surgeon General, he served as the Indiana state health commissioner, from 2014 to 2017."
tagline: "Surgeon General of the United States from 2017 to 2021"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Vice_Adm._Jerome_M._Adams_(2).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1974-09-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.33
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.34881866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/JeromeAdamsMD"
    handle:    "JeromeAdamsMD"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/jerome.adams.5688476"
    handle:    "jerome.adams.5688476"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jerome_Adams"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%85_%D8%A2%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B2"
    title: "جيروم آدامز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Adams"
    title: "Jerome Adams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Adams"
    title: "Jerome Adams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%85_%D8%A2%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B2"
    title: "جروم آدامز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Adams"
    title: "Jerome Adams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Adams"
    title: "Jerome Adams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Adams"
    title: "Jerome Adams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Adams"
    title: "Jerome Adams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Adams"
    title: "Jerome Adams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BC_%D0%90%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BC%D1%81"
    title: "Джером Адамс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Adams"
    title: "Jerome Adams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q31213302"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump